Re: topological closeness....

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>]

At 12:44 AM 5/18/96 +0800, Che-Hoo Cheng wrote:

> Yes, they are still a minor aspect but I think they contribute serveral more
> percents to the return on investment.  In AP, we have exchange points such
> as NSPIXP of Japan and HKIX of Hong Kong.  If ISPs in other AP countries
> have links to JP or HK and automatically (or semi-automatically) they can
> connect to all ISPs in that country/region instead of just one or several
> ISPs in it, the connection is more valuable and justifiable.  If the links
> can also be used to connect to other ISPs in other AP countries via that
> exchange, the connection is even more valuable and justifiable.  Of course,
> we still can't eliminate the links to US altogether.  But we probably can
> slow down the growth of bandwidth requirements to US a little bit.

Thanks for mentioning this -- it is exactly what is needed.  :-)

- paul

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